[BroJoeK]

Kalamata: "I have read about the Lincoln rumour, but never mentioned it. However, I have noticed that the progressives love to cackle & crow about the Davis rumour."

They weren't "rumors", they were partisan political hyperbole & cartoons, of the type we can easily find today.
On these threads over many years I've seen Lincoln's 1861 sneaking through Baltimore mentioned about as often as Davis's 1865 escape from Richmond.

But I'd never before seen the two mentioned together in one post.

[rockrr]

I saw some other loser drag it up once, several years ago. He was unceremoniously mocked. Maybe we should make a tradition of it!